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In the end, we are human beings with human minds having human experiences. No different from each other or those who came long before us.
When you are healthy, not lacking, have great relationships with those that matter, and express who you are through your work or your family or your art or whatever that is important to you, you are truly living.
Life is long, a chain of intertwining moments, looping round and round. But life is short. Blinks. Memories. Connections. Then you’re gone.
Life is a series of choices and all we can do is make them. Sometimes we’ll choose ones that serve us, sometimes not. And when that happens, it’s our duty to be gentle with ourselves. We are human. We will make mistakes. It’s the nature of our being. Sometimes we’ll look back at those mistakes as the best things we ever did. That’s also part of the contract.
Peace is saying to yourself, “it’s ok.” Peace is knowing that the maze the mind plays in is not the truth. Peace is knowing that life is. Just is. How we choose to react to it determines our reality.
I am not the outcome. No one is. I am my effort, what I put on the table. That’s it.
The greatest achievement of humanity is the human spirit. The ability to rise beyond our circumstances, to find hope in the midst of suffering, to love so deeply that it transforms entire societies.
We all have unfulfilled dreams and goals and desires. Unfulfilled, why? Reasons pop up, but they’re just guises for fear. Fear that we’re not good enough. Fear that we’ll fail. Fear that our fears will be true. Whatever the rationalization is, it is fear. And fear is not the truth.
The truth in life is, we are born, we exist, then we are gone. That’s it. What happens before or after is your personal belief, and if you have one, you should live it fully.
Being born and gone, we have no control over. Eventually happens to the best of us. But knowing that one day we will cease, and not knowing whether that is today or a distant tomorrow, that realization is a key to living a fulfilling life. The trip you wanted to take, the one you wanted to love, the risk you wanted to risk, the movie you wanted to make, the phone call you wanted to dial, the sunrise you wanted to see… Look behind you. What are you waiting for?
